Nicole’s breath hitched. The book slid from her lap and thudded to the floor, but neither of them moved to pick it up.
“Liar.” He set down the lens and the cloth. “You’re thinking about what your mom would say if she saw the way you looked at me at dinner last night.” SexMex 24 10 11 Nicole Zurich Step-Siblings Mee...
She finally lifted her gaze. His eyes, the color of a winter sky, were fixed on her with an intensity that made her stomach drop. “Maybe I’m just appreciating the quiet.” Nicole’s breath hitched
“The worst,” he agreed, his voice a low rasp. “Our parents are in love. We share a last name on legal documents. If this blows up, it blows up everything .” “You’re thinking about what your mom would say
The rain was a constant, gray sheet against the windows of the lake house, trapping them inside a world that felt suddenly, dangerously small. Nicole had claimed the window seat in the living room, a heavy book open on her lap that she hadn’t turned a page of in twenty minutes. Across the room, Zurich was methodically cleaning his vintage camera lenses, the soft click and twist of metal the only sound besides the rain.
“I can’t,” she whispered, the words barely audible over the rain.
They’d been step-siblings for three years. Their parents, married after whirlwind romances following各自的 divorces, were currently on a “second honeymoon” in Santorini, leaving the two of them alone for two full weeks. Two weeks in the house where they’d first been introduced as a “new family.”